I love this movie. It's not a great movie in any category. It's not a great John Carpernter movie, it's not even a great vampire movie, but I love it. I think the idea of it is pretty decent, I like the portrayal of the main vampire (even if he's kind of a mouth-breather because of the fangs), and I like the dialogue between James Woods and his pet priest. Jack Crow (James Woods) and his team are vampire hunters for the Catholic Church. They travel around the country killing nests of vampires, typically one master and a bunch of drones. Things start to go wrong when they put down a nest of drones but can't find the master. He shows up that night and lays the entire team to waste except for Jack and his friend Montoya (David Baldwin) who run. Jack grabs Katrina (Sheryl Lee), a hooker the vampire fed on, because she has a psychic link to the master until she is completely turned. Through her visions, they learn that the master vampire is looking for a Catholic relic somewhere in the Southwest. Their new priest, Father Adam (Tim Guinee), reluctantly tells them that the master is Jan Valek (Thomas Ian Griffith), a former priest who was turned into a vampire by an exorcism gone wrong. The artifact he is searching for is the cross used during his ceremony that will give him immunity to sunlight.
It's a fun, violent movie and one of a handful that I can throw on after a bad day that always makes me smile.
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